New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-27
A NOTARY PUBLrCs VIEWS.

Roam Mountain Tenn Sept. s.-We have no Post OF
G. r. here but the woods are full OF the Ola Boys
bays talked with good many and though they are
poor. they do not favor any palper Dill ihoS mi ~
Fight tning Private pension bills depend so much on
personal and influence that the vetoes are NOT
GREETED much. As Notary Public often nave, ocea-
SION TO see the peculiar difficulties these East tennessee
soldiers contend with IN order TO prove tne 6s
ahtes Many OF them served in regiments from o1her
states and they find surgeons OF comrades now
There little or no postal service Just after ne
and they have often lost all trace OF comrades VINO
IN Fast re gllnents Their homes we're 0iten
destroyed while In the field by bushwhackers anu o
papers we're lost. In republican FORM OF sovernop.
s1nity should be paramount principle; AMI where Is
the right demand thai soldier shall NC slNV yeSiso
age before drawing pensions Many OF our peS' %
were only sixteen at muster IN and they need IL more
now than sixty. Besides that the younger men
may not last long hard service has shortened our hves
about IL years ON the Then In regard 10 ar
rears I.t equitable that my comrsde should draw sne
arrears because he hled his papers before July iSso
willis nv application was delay 10 later date inc
cause existed In both and II Is often SLOW Joo c havs
hepod TO pay the National debt as our means aoMeu
and Il right that the Od BOYS snoua uni'e nitsJ
and honest pushing OF this matter will tend to settle l
rightly Let all press forward-Wiiiiam carpenter
THREE wOUNDs-PENsIoN. 81
De. Moines Iowa. Sept AL sincerely thank yon Tor
your efforts ascertain the views OF me oa a.
10 pensions For myself l think each honoraoly us
charged sold- upon arriving at fixed age.say hity
fvc or sixty years-shoud receive pension OF itom n
SiOO to 5000 per year. payable quarterly and based
length OF bis tom Of service Money can never pay In:
soldiers for Of health and suffering endured sS,
In many case: prevent their becoming public charge
was q member Of the Iron Brigade. Army OF the 70,
tomac for nearly three AMI half years was wounaeo
three times | now receive 81 per month pension lot
wound that entirely prevents me rom IoloWlng my
farmer occupation rhe pension vetoes were Tue
able brutal and insulting to the last degree ana couo
MAYER ave been written by any one with spark OIL pat
rotism or respect for the who saved the country
Nav God hasten the day when patriots shall DC honorco
iasfead of insuted By the Chief Executive OF great
Nation. Yours for ustice-'"
MECHANICS WERE GOOD soLDIERa
Mills PENN Sept 5-Thero are thirteen old soldiers
among my immediate acquaintances who de not oelonk
TO apy post OF g. A. r. We all favor service pension
graded according 70 service rendered snd 70 osaosy
Nv ali means however look after the needy ones nrsS
TIE most unfortunate are those who were meonas
lea They left good positions and tos trades went 70
the front came back broken down In hsate anu teon
found their places gone and their own sk ana
ness Impaired Ny experience 10 that the peat soaic.s
we're mschanica We approve OF the soldiers rssehuns
insults concoced by the enemies Of the soldiers who
soldcr.hating President Show them your erit oeys,
csiss I am q Democrat. but do not expect MT Csve.
70 take any interest IN tho soders, He has
tasted any OF that kind Of fruitd. B. Adams COMPANY
b 62d Penn.l
VETO WHICH SHOULD RETIRE hin.
a. Jossph, Mo-, Sept 8I am one OF tno seloets WY
enlisted 10 1891 and served until after the o
Ise In 1865 was through Kentucky, Tenaessee All,
bsma, Georgia Maryland and virginia and was paa.y
wounded eeutherner, Ksntuohian ny nG.n, ~ =
chased out q kAapAis in December. As6o